I was ready to start laying down drum tracks, except for one thing. The kit had four-year-old heads on it and sounded terrible. So, I went in search of the drum shop. I found it on the second try. When I searched on my phone, Google Maps gave me the old location. I remembered it being there, so I went and found nothing. I tried again the next morning and found it easily in its current location, three-quarters of a mile north of the old location on the same street. I bought a full set of heads and went home.

Unfortunately, I had a ton of other stuff to do at home before my wife and mother-in-law arrived, so I only got half of the heads on. I finished the next day and got it all sounding decent, but it was another day before I actually was able to lay any tracks down.

Over the past two nights, I have recorded takes on three of the five songs I have. I will do my best to do the remaining two and maybe one more take of the last one I did tonight. Then, I will edit the tracks and try to finish them. Technically, I'll be pretty close to the 35 minutes because they're all long. So, I'm going to finish the five songs and then see how many days I have left to add one or two more.

Welcome to the new site. I spent most of Thursday night attempting to import the contents of the old Blogger site, which I finally managed to do successfully after downgrading to the previous version of the Wordpress import module. There is no direct import tool, so I had to export the old posts, convert to a Wordpress file and then import. So, everything that was there is now here.

I have not touched the RPM Challenge project for two days now, owing to work on this and some major housecleaning projects. I also mounted our new television to the fake fireplace that comprises one wall of our living room, so now it will no longer block the fake fireplace opening. It looks pretty sharp and will be even better once I hide the cables.

I finally got back to work today. The parts for my guitar showed up in the mail today, so I started off with some bass tracks. I played around and found some tempos, then put the bass parts I have for two songs down with a click. I didn't do the third because I decided I don't like it.

Tonight was the Panthers' Season Ticket Holder team signing, so I went to that right after work, followed up by dinner at Stevie B's in Weston. After we got home, I unpacked my new, dirt cheap SX bass, which arrived this afternoon. I sat down with it in the living room and checked it out. It plays reasonably well. There's some buzz, but some of it is probably easily fixable. It's a "vintage" jazz bass, with the old neck style that's really narrow at the nut. It's a little weird as I'm more used to playing metal basses or 90s Jazz basses, but I think it will do the trick.